what was your favourite toy as a kid?

[KristinCB]

Thread title says it all.. haha. Laura's thread about boy bands got me reminiscing..

I remember so so much about when I got this. I was SO excited. It was for my 7th birthday.. I thought I was the luckiest kid ever



ahh she ra castle.. those were the days

[emmasmommy]

*sigh* i loved my monchichis


we didn't get a lot of 'big' toys unless we all used them, but i really loved this...

remember tree tots? LOL

[mrshobbes]

Ooooo, these:




I don't like the "new" strawberry shortcake. I'll always love the old one best

[Traci Reed]

I got this for my 6th birthday:



Otherwise I was more of an artist, I got Spirographs, those things where you laid the plates down and made rubbings, lots of those color your own posters...

[Jenn Barrette]

I got the Precious Places mansion when I was 7 or 8 I think?



and my parents built me a table in my room to display/play with all my little Precious Places sets, so I had a set up like this-

[NeverendingJen]

uhm...my monchichis or my rollerblades. I was not a toy kid. I was a book kid, lol

[kscwgirl]

Laura found mine for me.



I loved Strawberry Shortcake too.

[maryinaz]

This is me at my 7th birthday party - yeah, yeah, in the pixie hair (my mom tricked me! I had hair down to my waist and she was just going to "trim" it - I still have that 22" of hair she cut off!)



So the Little Kiddles in the photo - those were my fav. I still have 2 of them.

[shaynesgirl]

I was a Barbie girl. My dad still has bought me a Barbie every year for Christmas since I was three (I am almost 40 LOL!) The year I got married - wedding Barbie, the year I became manager of the credit card department he got me a Mastercard Barbie, the year my son was born... well.. you get the picture.

These were my favorites growing up:
Barbie McDonalds


and the ever amazing Barbie Dreamhouse!

[jacinda]

Barbie, barbie, barbie. You mean there were other toys out there? LOL.

[Julie Billingsley]

besides Barbie, I was loving the Honey Hill Bunch

[Coila]

These were a few:

[shaynesgirl]

Ooooh Cabbage Patch dolls! I remember those flying off the shelves and waiting with mom as they unloaded a new shipment at the store. Mine was named Megan.

[scrapperjade]

My very favorite was my Cabbage Patch Newborn. Her name was Rachel!

The other thing was my play kitchen with Fisher Price food, grill, plates & cutlery. I played with that for HOURS with my sister & brother!

[rach3975]

Definitely my Cabbage Patch Kids, with Barbies coming in a close second. Here's DD meeting my oldest CPK (Cornelie Meghan) when she got her first one.



But like Jen, I was a book kid. From about 2nd to 4th grade I devoured Nancy Drew books.

[littlekiwi]

Originally Posted by jacinda

Barbie, barbie, barbie. You mean there were other toys out there? LOL.

my thoughts too

[d2vasquez]

I loved my barbies and was so excited when my mom bought me a Barbie Townhouse just because. I can remember holding the big box so tightly as we walked to the check out to pay for it....I felt like we were the richest family in the world! lol.....

[FireWolf]

Defiitely my Breyer horses and corral...I had tons of Barbies and hated them! Still do...LOL

[MamaBee]

Defintaly Strawberry Shortcake... I have the whole collection except for one - the one with glasses.

Otherwise...

Just got my lite brite out of storage for kiddo to play with.. now I will have to look on ebay for more sheets. LOL!


I LOVED these games... I had like 3 or 4 of them...


I remember playing with these all the time during the summer...


Mine was named Sara Celia... I was so mad that my mom made a bunch of cabbage patch clothes for my cousin than me...



And my pride and joy... Duke of Hazzard cars... I LOVED this show and I even had the plastic maze sheets that when on the etchasketch where you had to Beau and Luke out of trouble...

ETA... Barbies for me wasn't until I was older... I did get this pool for my first eye surgery at age 7, I think...

But then I didn't keep my barbies picked up and my mom took them away for a few years... I think I was like 12 before I got them back... I then started collecting them in High school/college... now I wish I didn't. I have 100+ dolls downstairs and no one wants to buy... so every year a box full of dolls goes to goodwill...

[hollyxann]

I was a Barbie girl!
Other than Barbie, I'd say it was my Fisher Price play kitchen set...I used to LOVE playing house with that.
And My Little Ponies, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake, my Light Brite.

Oh and Puppy Surprise! I used to love getting new ones to see how many puppies my "dog" would have. lol


I was an only child til I was 6 1/2 so I was spoiled! I won't lie, and I'm not ashamed. I had EVERYTHING! We had an inclosed porch that was specifically my play room and it was covered in toys. I even had a Smurf picnic table that we kept inside during the winter.

[Chels85]

i had what some ppl already listed:
Barbies
cabbage patch dolls
lite brite
instead of Nintendo, had sega, remember playing a racing time alllll the time
ummm had a feels so real baby doll (not sure what it was called), her name was rebecca
oh and a walking puppy of some sort lol
fisher price kitchen as well
fisher price dr kit, played with it all the time

Fun Thread!

[KristinCB]

*sigh* is it just me or are toys just not the same these days?

Lily is alot like you, traci... she really couldn't be bothered much with toys but she loves to get crafting kits etc and just spends her time doing that sorta stuff... she has a doll house but has rarely touched it. She used it ocassionly
for littlest pet shops but never for barbies.

[shaynesgirl]

Originally Posted by MamaBee

I remember playing with these all the time during the summer...

OMG! I had forgotten about these until I saw your post. I used to LOVE this and the light table with the pictures you could trace.

[nikkiARNGwife]

Originally Posted by kscwgirl

Laura found mine for me.



I loved Strawberry Shortcake too.

Oh how many hours and hours my little sister and I spent playing with this! We also loved our little people sets...the good old ones before they became "a choking hazard" lol I just did a layout about some of my fave toys (my mom still has several of these and my kids play with them)



and these were some of my favorite Barbies

[digideb]

Originally Posted by hollyxann

Oh and Puppy Surprise! I used to love getting new ones to see how many puppies my "dog" would have. lol

This! I had several & cub suprise! Brings back some good memories!
I also loved my TONS of Barbies. lol But, this one was my fave.

[aggiefamily]

Little People- especially the Sesame Street edition. I actually broke my arm on it.

I had 8 Cabbage Patch kids so I guess you can say I like those.

When I wasn't playing with dolls, reading or riding my bike I was teaching my younger brothers. I had a huge chalkboard (was from an old school) on the playroom wall and I would make them sit in chairs and listen to my lessons.

[maryinaz]

Originally Posted by MamaBee

I then started collecting them in High school/college... now I wish I didn't. I have 100+ dolls downstairs and no one wants to buy... so every year a box full of dolls goes to goodwill...

Ditto here. I have gobs. Darn eBay ruined the collectibles market for many things.

[rachaelsscraps]

My favorites were my Cabbage Patch doll (it had weird hair that you could crimp), My Little Ponies, POPPLES, Pound Puppies, Strawberry Shortcake... Most of the old toys are sitting in my daughter's closet, just waiting for her to get a little older so she can have them. My son already has my old Pound Puppy, he sleeps with it every night and my daughter has my Cabbage Patch doll already.
I love the layout, Nikki, now I want to do a layout like that!!!

[tanyiadeskins]

I do not really remember having too many toys, I loved outside stuff.. jump ropes, chinese jump rope, bikes, roller skates, etc.

[Amy Carey]

Originally Posted by nikkiARNGwife

Oh how many hours and hours my little sister and I spent playing with this! We also loved our little people sets...the good old ones before they became "a choking hazard" lol I just did a layout about some of my fave toys (my mom still has several of these and my kids play with them)



and these were some of my favorite Barbies

oh swooooooon!! I STILL have my pretty in pink barbie. And my other two favorites were DReam Date barbie that her dress had the ruffle you could arrange different ways to get different looks and pretty changes barbie ..she had curly short hair, which was rare in a barbie and her ensemble was yellow. And I had Western Barbie too...remember winking that eye! lol

[nikkiARNGwife]

Amy my sister and I always got the same thing at Christmastime just so we wouldn't argue over them..and that year that Western Barbie came out we both got her and Ken and Western Skipper and her horse Dallas AND the Western Barbie RV...



That was one of my favorite Christmases ever! lol